Product Description

The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death - they're all terrifically exciting but they happen whether we like it or not. It's the little thinks in life that cause the most trouble. How do you deal with the million and one everyday challenges? Help is at hand. For the first time you can get intelligent practical tuition on the level you need it. The trivial level. After years of exploring the small pockets in life's backpack in his celebrated 'How to' column in the Weekend Guardian, Guy Browning has the rules that can help you move safely and effortlessly through the micro-chicanes on life's byways, including: What are the consequences of hitting a jellyfish with a spade? Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? What's the clearest way of giving directions to a place you've never heard of? What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? In breaststroke what do you do with your head when's it's underwater?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47457 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-23
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Sunday Times
‘Perfect’ Caroline Gascoigne, Books for Christmas

Sunday Times
• ‘A brilliant one-off in which everyday matters are skewered with deadpan style and deadly accuracy.’

From the Publisher
Invaluable advice on questions such as:

What are the consequences of hitting a jellyfish with a spade?

Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it?

In breaststroke what do you do with your head when’s it’s underwater?

And most crucial of all, what is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it?

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
This is a wonderful book which I found consistently amusing and clever. It's more like a collection of magazine articles than a book, each section covers a topic neatly and provides a brief minute or two of entertainment. Witty, observant and generally well-written humour.

Stating the obvious!!!!!!
"When you are cutting the grass, take the lawnmower out of the shed, otherwise you will probably wonder why your grass is not getting any shorter"
Although this sentence is not in the book it is along the lines of the ones that are. I enjoy philosophical/observational type humour, Billy Connelly, Peter Kay etc however this book is rubbish. I bought it on e-bay for 50p and consider it a waste of 50p.

OK
Mildly entertaining, i.e take on a short flight or train commute, it won't keep you interested for much longer.